dbkaplun

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by dbkaplun 8y ago
For me, reusing widely used code that's heavily tested is preferable to the liability of handwritten code. If I'm given the opportunity, when possible, I'm going to choose the former.
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by dbkaplun 8y ago
React is a view library. It keeps the page to date with your data, much like Vue or Angular. jQuery is a DOM manipulation library, so in a sense it is lower level than React. It abstracts the DOM implementations across browsers to provide a
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by dbkaplun 8y ago
RFC: https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/16/files?short_path=5c765e6 Summarized algorithm: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*1b7KHDG2St5D-6jepf...
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Secure, reproducible builds for NPM(hackernoon.com)
2 points by dbkaplun 8y ago|2 comments
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by dbkaplun 8y ago
There's a nice set of challenges for learning window functions and testing your window function knowledge: https://www.windowfunctions.com/
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by dbkaplun 8y ago
> The big problem with trying to tune a guitar that way is that you're tuning a guitar so it's in tune when you don't press the strings, but then when you actually play it you do press down the strings. When you press the
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by dbkaplun 8y ago
> Any slack present in the string winding can cause the string to go out of tune easily if you loosen the string to the correct tension. You can get around that by using harmonics. Because you play harmonics without pushing all the way d
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by dbkaplun 8y ago
The article is short and cursory. It can be summarized with the following excerpt: > Zcash uses zero-knowledge proofs to guarantee that transactions are valid despite the fact that information about the sender, the recipient, and the amo
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by dbkaplun 8y ago
> Fulcrum. Given a sequence of integers, returns the index i that minimizes |sum(seq[..i]) - sum(seq[i..])|. Does this in O(n) time and O(n) memory. This is doable in O(n) time and O(1) memory. Sum the list once. Then start from the begi
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by dbkaplun 8y ago
Perhaps China is advertising this to deter crime, as a potential criminal might worry about facial recognition before doing something illegal.
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by dbkaplun 8y ago
I found this guide (with slight modifications) helpful for setting up stubby as a localhost DNS resolver to proxy through 1.1.1.1 with DNS-over-TLS on macOS: https://medium.com/nlnetlabs/privacy-using-dns-over-tls-with.
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by dbkaplun 9y ago
jQuery's bread and butter is DOM manipulation. However, for even moderately small use cases (even an interactive form) it is useful to use React, Angular, or some data binding framework, as state changes in jQuery quickly become unmain
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by dbkaplun 9y ago
GitUp[1] is an excellent alternative to gitx and ungit, for those unhappy with either. [1]: https://github.com/git-up/GitUp
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by dbkaplun 9y ago
Source: https://github.com/bootandy/window_funcs
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Finite State Entropy, made easy(github.com)
1 points by dbkaplun 9y ago|0 comments
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A solution for scalable randomness(iohk.io)
1 points by dbkaplun 9y ago|0 comments
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by dbkaplun 9y ago
Here's a link to the graphical explanation listed: http://www.swirlds.com/downloads/SWIRLDS-TR-2016-02.pdf
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Provably secure Proof of Stake(cardanodocs.com)
1 points by dbkaplun 9y ago|0 comments
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by dbkaplun 9y ago
slap[0] (the terminal-based text editor) was designed to emulate Sublime's UX within the terminal. It has a shallower learning curve than other command line editors. [0] https://github.com/slap-editor/slap
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by dbkaplun 9y ago
Along with New Tab iFrame[0], I use TabTerm[1] for a terminal in the new tab page. [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-iframe/pjj... [1] https://github.com/tabterm/tabte
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by dbkaplun 9y ago
Another useful quality of a diff algorithm is being able to understand and detect moves. This is not commonly implemented but one real-world example is https://www.semanticmerge.com/ .
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by dbkaplun 10y ago
- "test".match(/st$/)
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by dbkaplun 10y ago
The author clearly doesn't practice abundant thinking, as the title should be "The Advantages of Abundant Thinking".
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Show HN: A web-based process monitor(dbkaplun.github.io)
4 points by dbkaplun 11y ago|1 comments
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by dbkaplun 11y ago
You can use otool to see what libraries a program uses: $ otool -L /Applications/Utilities/Activity\ Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/Activity\ Monitor /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.